Removable singularity

In complex analysis, a removable singularity of a holomorphic function is a point at which the function is undefined, but it is possible to redefine the function at that point in such a way that the resulting function is regular in a neighbourhood of that point.

For instance, the (unnormalized) sinc function

has a singularity at z = 0. This singularity can be removed by defining f(0) := 1, which is the limit of f as z tends to 0. The resulting function is holomorphic. In this case the problem was caused by f being given an indeterminate form. Taking a power series expansion for ${\displaystyle {\frac {\sin(z)}{z}}}$ shows that

Formally, if ${\displaystyle U\subset \mathbb {C} }$ is an open subset of the complex plane ${\displaystyle \mathbb {C} }$, ${\displaystyle a\in U}$ a point of ${\displaystyle U}$, and ${\displaystyle f:U\setminus \{a\}\rightarrow \mathbb {C} }$ is a holomorphic function, then ${\displaystyle a}$ is called a removable singularity for ${\displaystyle f}$ if there exists a holomorphic function ${\displaystyle g:U\rightarrow \mathbb {C} }$ which coincides with ${\displaystyle f}$ on ${\displaystyle U\setminus \{a\}}$. We say ${\displaystyle f}$ is holomorphically extendable over ${\displaystyle U}$ if such a ${\displaystyle g}$ exists.

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